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Look this is different than pirating a game or bypassing a newspaper paywall. Watching content on YouTube simply costs money to YouTube. It's not like torrenting a game or movie, where while you haven't paid for the content, it didn't cost anything to the owner other than theoretical revenue. And it's not like bypassing a newspaper paywall, either, where the cost to the newspaper to serve you the story is practically negligible and the real costs are fixed and not related to how many people actually read the story.
Hosting video costs money and nobody can replace YouTube's massive library or realistically replicate their business model. I mean just look at image/gif hosting sites, they constantly go bust like Photobucket because storing everyone's pictures forever and for free isn't not a real business model.
YouTube needs to be paid for its gonna go the way of Photobucket.
Let it die. Creators will go elsewhere. We need to shake up the ancien regime a bit
And are you going to pay to host the petabytes of 4K content? Or are you going to expect other people to pay that when these creators jump ship?
What kind of moron is distributing 4k content when 1080p with high bitrate is already overkill?
What ๐ 1080p looks like garbage on a 4K TV.
High bit rate 1080 is actually more data than most 4k streams. Besides, I can absolutely tell the difference on my computer monitor.
Get your eyes checked.
You may want to if you can't see a difference.
Maybe it's because I am blind and so my point is a little bit different. But personally, I have never understood having much video over about 1080p, especially on a phone and possibly even 720p. Peertube and 720p would work great. Each creator could set up their own instance or pay someone to set it up for them, and if they ever blew up and got seriously big, the amount of people watching their videos would send to their peers and load balance across them so the server wasn't totally overwhelmed.
Yeah Iโm not paying for that shit. Iโll let others pick up the cost not even gonna lie
Ok. Just sit on Lemmy and complain, then. Very helpful.
Iโm not trying to help, and who the hell ordained you to be the champion of this noble cause of being a paypig?
It came to them in a form of a Raid Shadow Legends ad, on their knees they swore to pay YouTube, but they still watch ads each Sabbath to cleanse themselves.
In the name of Pewdiepie, Mr Beast, and SSSniperwolf, Amen